Adam Driver sent to Earth to smash dinosaurs, that's what had to do. Seeing Sam Raimi on the project made him more interesting, just as much as his refreshing duration of barely an hour and thirty. Yet 65: The Land Before seems to be a failed alumni in Driver's career as the film is increasingly unwinding until its final total flat. Too bad, because a small series B could have been born from the draft of this feature film.
Maximum Hype
It does not take long for the hype caused by the announcement of these few names, of a comfortable budget and of a potentially juicy scenario, does not totally strove with the opening scene presenting the trio of characters from which the film will be born. Turned on a beach with a pinkish image of telenovela, we understand that Father Mills (Adam Driver) goes on a mission to have enough money to pay for the care of his sick daughter. This blond exhibition (and too long for what it has to show), is a mid-sized one, but it nevertheless suggests the possibility of a more explicitly bourrine suite... Hopes, unfortunately, were quickly broken.
The duo of directors – Scott Beck & Bryan Woods – is not completely unknown. If they are behind several more or less obscure horror films, they are also the ones who sign the writing of the very successful No noise. Here it seems that they used a dead Carnotaurus horn to write 65: The Land Before, as the film alternates between a back-story and flat action scenes, all dotted with a number of stratospheric inconsistencies.
Gigantism absent
The most striking thing about the picture is how small it is. The actors are constantly filmed in cross-slope to pull a background from the frame that should have been built. On the contrary, when they evolve within a landscape, it could be a present-day forest all that is more traditional. The work on the decor is almost nothing and is based almost exclusively on extremely poorly managed special effects. A problem all the more glaring when one is supposed to represent huge animals, evolving in lush forests where everything should be too big.
Series B?
Some plans suggest the possibility of a small (salvator) series B, of the kind that would populate the RTL9 program grids. Indeed, we have some scenes where humor works rather well and where the film does not take itself seriously. A few disgusting projections based on crushed beetles and insects even disgust the viewer. There was only one step to take to lay a completely decomplexed, deprecated and playful SF.
Unfortunately, the duo of directors is never cruel enough with his characters, assumes a list of absolutely crazy inconsistencies and, worse, sprinkles their story of moments « emotion » I don't care. A greasy one that impels the feature film to an end that will not be revealed, but far too nice to be pleasant.
It sounds very concon but you made me want to see him for a pizza party!
Same one! 😉
The perfect movie for that ^^ good viewing guys!